No Recovery Without Child Care

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The COVID-19 global pandemic has upended the economy. Home and work life collided for many British Columbians in 2020 and the work of early childhood educators (ECEs) and school age workers became all the more essential. A quality child care system has been highlighted as a crucial piece of social infrastructure.

Governments are hearing us loud and clear: without child care, the economy will not recover.

ECEs and school age workers are at the heart of a quality, affordable, accessible child care system. It’s imperative that government gets to work to address issues of recruitment, retention and training so that the next generation of educators can grow into their careers and be compensated and treated like the professionals they are.

We call upon the provincial and federal governments to prioritize child care as a key piece of our economic and social recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and to do the following:

Implement a competitive province-wide wage grid for ECEs and school age workers to recognize the essential services they provide and the professionalism they bring to the job.
Build the infrastructure to create more public, affordable child care spaces and train more ECEs and school age workers to support those new spaces.
Expand $10aDay prototype sites building on the province’s successful model.

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